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Publications of Ladislav Zgusta. Part 1 Indo-European and general historical linguistic studies: nexus and "extraclausality" in Verdic, or "sa-fige" all over again - an historical (re)examination, Hans Henrich Hock; some archaisms in the Illiad, Henry M. Hoenigswald; the origin and evolution of primary derivative suffixes in Dravidian, Bh. Krishnamurti; ex oriente nox, W.P. Lehmann; Indo-European religion, Edgar C. Polome; archaism and innovation in proto-Celtic?, Karl Horst Schmidt; on Old Persian hypocoristics in -iya-, Rudiger Schmitt; some problems of Latin adverbs, Oswald Szemerenyi; Hittite telipuri-"district, precinct", Johann Tischler; lexical archaisms in the Tocharian languages, Werner Winter. Part 2 Papers on lexicography and history of linguistics: corrections and additions to the Ossetic etymological dictionary, V.I. Abaev; more on the diccionario Griego-Espanol, Francisco R. Adrados; uphill with Dasypodius - on the lexicographic treatment of weak nouns in German, Elmer H. Antonsen; the gnosiological and dianoetic aspects of language and the limitedness of G.B. Vico's theory, Walter Belardi; re-constructing ideology, part one - animadversions of John Horne Tooke on the origins of affixes and non-designative words, Frederic Dolezal; Greek maulisterion and its group - a lexicographical essay, Olivier Masson; the vocabulary of culture - a potential method of contrastive description, Oskar Reichmann; the lexical semitisms of Septuagint Greek as a reflex of the history of the Hebrew vocabulary - implications concerning lexical diachromy and historical lexicography, Haiim B. Rosen; printed language dictionaries and their standardization - notes on the progress towards a general theory of lexicography, Herbert Ernst Wiegand.